OTFCC 2003

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Date	July 25, 2003
City	Rosemont, IL
Venue	Hyatt Regency O'Hare

The Official Transformers Collectors Convention 2003 (commonly shortened to OTFCC 2003) was held on July 25 to July 27, 2003, in Rosemont, Illinois, just outside of Chicago.

This convention was the first run after the somewhat acrimonious departure of Jon and Karl Hartman from 3H. As they owned the BotCon name, the convention was given a new and unwieldy name, whose acronym provided endless entertainment for the fandom.

Venue

This is the view from the train station, which you'd know already if you'd bothered to go see the city!

OTFCC 2003 was held at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois.

Merchandise

Convention-exclusive toys

File:UniverseSunstreaker toy.jpg

Better hustle to get one! We'll never get another Sunstreaker toy!

• Universe Sunstreaker, a yellow redeco of Robots in Disguise Prowl. The toy was available only in limited quantities to those who booked a room in advance at the convention hotel.
• Sideswipe, a red redeco of RID Prowl.
• Roulette and Shadow Striker, two redecos of the Robots in Disguise Side Burn mold with an all-new head sculpt.

For all of the above toys, the clear plastic used for the "window" on their packaging was much softer than that on any official Transformer toy packaging before or since, feeling more like cellophane than shelf-ready protective plastic.

Other merchandise

These collectible plates caused endless, endless sorrow.

• Each dinner attendee was randomly given one of two collectible War Within-themed plates with art by Don Figueroa... or would have, if they had not been massively delayed; as it was, they were eventually sent through the mail. Each attendee was also given the option to purchase the plate they needed for a "full set" for an additional $50.

Fiction

• As the first issue of the Universe comic was delayed, a preview consisting of the first few pages was inserted into the program guide.

Guests

• Musician Vince DiCola

Hasbro employees

• Aaron Archer
• Michelle Field
• Jerry Jivoin
• Eric Siebenaler

Voice actors

• Gregg Berger
• Garry Chalk
• David Kaye

Comics and animation

• Devil's Due Press:
• Josh Blaylock
• Mike Norton
• Clayton Brown
• Mark Brooks

• Dreamwave Productions:
• Simon Furman
• ?

Events

Saturday

Nirvana is coming! The mystic portal awaits!

Man, cool! Hope it won't be hard to find these guys in the store!

• 8:00am: Doors open to the public. Two different video rooms run non-stop Transformer episodes 24 hours a day, one for Generation 1, one for Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Robots in Disguise, and Armada. The Hasbro display case features the first waves of the upcoming Energon toyline, as well as the first Alternators toy, Smokescreen, all of which would hit stores the following December.
• 11:00am: MSTF: The Musical
• 1:30pm: Hasbro Panel, featuring first-look clips of stock transformation footage from the upcoming Energon cartoon, with a fill-in soundtrack by Evanescence. These cleanly-animated, high-frame-rate sequences were met with wild cheers from the audience... the young, innocent, hopelessly naive and optimistic audience.
• 3:00pm: Voice Impression Contest; Dreamwave Panel
• 4:00pm: Dreamwave and Devil's Due Crossovers Panel
• 5:00pm: Devil's Due Panel
• 6:00pm: Doors close for the day.
• 7:30pm: Voice actor script reading
• 9:00pm: The Allspark's Transgeneration 2003 party

Sunday

• 9:00am: Doors open
• 11:00am: From Discussion Forum to "The War Within": The Allspark in the Fan Community Panel
• 12:00pm: unclaimed preregistered toy merchandise becomes available for sale to the public
• 12:30pm: Charity Auction
• 2:00pm: Across the Generations: A Voice Actor Panel
• 3:30pm: Convention by Design - organizers panel
• 6:00pm: Doors close. Game over.